Brandie N. Toombs, a 25-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot in Milwaukee on the evening of April 24, 2019, around 6 p.m., near 77th Street and Medford Avenue. She was found slumped over in the driver’s seat with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Investigators recovered $525 in her left hand and more than $1,600 in her pocket; Toombs was known to sell cellphones and routinely carried cash for that business.

Investigators traced her last call to a Facebook account belonging to a man identified as Fred Davenport. An informant said Davenport and another man planned to rob Toombs; photos on Davenport’s Facebook page showed him in a multi-colored jogging suit matching the shooter description. Police say Davenport brandished a gun, demanded money, and shot Toombs when she put her car in gear to flee. The men left without taking money.

Two months after the shooting, Davenport, then 23, was arrested in Upper Michigan. In February 2020 he pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime and in October 2020 received a 35-year prison sentence with 15 months of extended supervision on release.

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